My son has mental health issue – Father of Iniubong Umoren’s killer, Akpan defends son

The father’s defense is coming after his son had denied ever knowing Late. Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of Philosophy, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, who was allegedly tricked, raped, and murdered, by prime suspect, Uduak Akpan, while on a job hunt in the Uruan local government area of the state.

Senior Akpan told the court that was in the house of his secondary school classmate at Uko Eshiet Street on the day that the incident occurred, adding that he only returned home at about 7 pm, to be told by his son that, there was an undisclosed medical emergency for which he advised him to hold on till the next morning.

He then added that later, his son came back and told him that he was travelling to Calabar before he heard a knock on the gate of his house by policemen from Uruan Divisional Headquarters who later told him that they were in search of a missing lady.

He further said he conducted the police around his house and thereafter, was taken to the Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Uyo, where he was detained, until his son was arrested and himself freed from police custody.